Band splits up

On 25 February 2011, Oceansize announced via the band’s Twitter and Facebook pages that they had split up. No explanations were provided. In an interview a year later in 2012, Vennart commented “It’s tricky. I’d kind of like to tell the story but it’s pretty dramatic. It would alter the sound of the records that we spent ages dreaming up, and to some people it might sound all a little petty. But it was so fucking ugly. Suffice to say it was a recurring problem that grew and grew and it couldn’t be ignored or tolerated anymore.” On 31 May 2013 Vennart finally put an end to most speculation via a post on Twitter, stating that after a disastrous band performance at a concert in Warsaw on 23 October 2010, Gambler had quit Oceansize and that this had broken up the band. In reply to a fan who tweeted a video of the performance, in which Mark Heron’s drumming seems considerably affected, Vennart commented: “Stay off them drugs, kids”.